Monday, November 24, 2014

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News and articles from around the web

Version 3.0 of the Capstone disassembly framework has been
released. Python bindings have
been updated to support Python 3, and this release also adds support for
Sparc, SystemZ and XCore. It also has performance improvements.

On the mailing lists

If you're wondering how the process of adding OpenMP support to Clang is
going, the
answer is
that it's still ongoing and there's hope it will be done by the 3.6 release,
depending on the speed of code reviews.

Peter Collingbourne has proposed adding the llgo frontend to the LLVM
project.
Chris Lattner is in favour of
this, but
would like to see the GPLv3+runtime exception dependencies rewritten before
being checked in. Some people in the thread expressed concern that the
existing base of LLVM/Clang reviewers know C++ and may not be able to review
patches in Go, though it looks like a non-zero of existing LLVM reviewers are
appropriately multilingual.